The Immutable, Unchanging God
THE DIFFICULTY IN KNOWING GOD
No one perfectly understands God. Again, from the very outset we must confess that God is incomprehensible; He cannot be confined to the capacity of even the largest human intellect; He cannot be limited by any kind of human definition. Although He has revealed much about Himself to us, everything we know about God we know in the most primitive terms.
It is often easier to think of God in negative terms. We live in a world that is so opposite God that we frequently have to grasp what God is like by saying what He is not like, because He is unlike anything we understand. For example, when we say God is holy, we mean He has no sin. We cannot conceive of the essence of absolute holiness—all we have experienced is sin. We cannot comprehend eternality or infinity, but we understand boundaries, so we say that God doesn’t have any limitations.